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overthink

/ ˌəʊvəˈθɪŋk /

verb

  1. to spend more time thinking about something than is necessary or productive

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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There’s a lot to overthink in that statement and with “Gutfeld!” generally.

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Presumably, there is nothing for the front office to overthink here.

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The aspect of the album that feels most akin to “Ocean Avenue” was that Barker never really allowed them to overthink anything when it came to songwriting, a skill the band had unwittingly mastered as kids back in the “Ocean Avenue” days by writing songs on the fly in the studio with little time to care about how a song might end up before they recorded it.

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And JoJo said, ‘Dude, just take him. Don’t overthink this.’

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He added: "It makes me fry my brain as I overthink about what I could have done differently. I still struggle with this guilty feeling."

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